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Let's take a look at my swing back from when I used to play competitively.

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First thing I'll do is I'll just let it play through somewhat slowly and you

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can look at

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whatever pieces you want to.

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We're going to look at a couple different swings.

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So this first one is a three wood and then we'll look at a seven iron from face

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on and

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down on.

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I'm going to show you how my swing demonstrates how the key movements that I

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teach in the

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GSA system establish good leg and good swing plane, both of which help you with

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distance

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and consistency, where what I've found is that golfers who simply try and

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create leg

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or try and create swing plane don't create near the level of distance and

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consistency

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as those who do it through training movements.

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So to look at leg, let's go up to the top of the swing and we'll see that as I

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start

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down, the first thing to move is going to be my lower body followed by my rib

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cage followed

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finally by my arms.

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So one way that you can look at if the lower body has initiated the downswing

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is when

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I get to this position here where the belt buckle is roughly pointed out at the

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golf

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ball, I want the left arm to be somewhere around parallel.

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Many amateurs when the belt buckle is pointed at the golf ball would have their

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left arm

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way down here in front of their left thigh, that would be a clear indication

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that they're

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starting everything in their body together, where in this video I'm clearly

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demonstrating

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that I'm starting with my lower body.

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The next piece to leg is going to be rotating my trunk or my rib cage.

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This will be evident by the time or by looking at where the arms are when they

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get in front

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of the golf ball.

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I were to draw a line up here, you can see that the hands are roughly in front

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or even

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with the golf ball, right, so the back of my left hand right here is about even

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with

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the golf ball when the club is about parallel to the ground.

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Now this did not happen because I was holding my wrist back.

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This happened because I was doing the proper movement to square the club face

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and I was

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creating the speed from my lower body.

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During the next phase would be the release where my hands are getting out in

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front of

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the golf ball when I'm making contact with the golf ball and my arms are now

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extending

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to transfer that energy that my body has created.

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So this is a clear indication of how a leg is created in the golf swing and why

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a little

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5 foot 10, 160 pound golfer like myself was able to hit many par 5s into and

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take a crack

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at most par 4s that were under 350 off the tee.

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So using the body correctly is one of the biggest ways to create pound for

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pound distance.

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Now let's take a look at how I demonstrate the GSA system movements while I'm

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swinging

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with an iron.

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And this is back from when I used to play competitively.

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Now what we'll show from this point of view is we're going to show how these

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movements

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create swing plane where what most golfers do is they try to manufacture, they

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try to

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get the club on plane by just putting the club there as opposed to using the

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arms correctly.

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Now there's a couple different ways to draw swing plane.

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One would be if I draw a line up the shaft from the start position.

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One would be if I draw a line from the hosel to the point of the elbow.

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But I think and those are both okay ways to draw swing plane.

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I think the most accurate way is to go to impact and then draw a line from the

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point

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of the hosel to roughly where the grip would be.

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Now if I were to go backward from here you would see that the club is slightly

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under

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plane and my hands are slightly above it until I make contact and then the hose

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l and the

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grip end of the club are both roughly on the swing plane on the way through.

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So I had a path that came slightly from the inside which gave me the draw.

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Now let's take a look at how the movements that we talked about in the when

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looking at

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my three would created the swing plane.

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So the first movement that's going to happen is my lower body is going to

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initiate the

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downswing.

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So from this point of view you can see that my thighs are roughly parallel to

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the target

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line before my or right around when my left arm is parallel to the ground.

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This we saw from the face on view as the belt buckle pointing at the golf ball.

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The next piece would be looking at my chest and when my chest is pointing at

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the golf

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ball roughly when my hands are even with it and from here you'll see the arms

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finally

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release the club.

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It's this transition movement from the body where the lower body initiates with

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a lateral

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movement as well as a rotation, the upper body waiting its turn and then the

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upper body rotating

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and then finally the hands extending that create the appearance of the club

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swinging

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down on a swing plane is not because I actively tried to get the club to swing

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down on plane.

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Now let's take a look at the similarities and the differences between my iron

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and my

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driver's swing.

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So if I go up to the top of the swing with both and just for reference sake you

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can see

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that I've drawn a vertical line roughly up from the back of the golf ball.

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Now we can see that with the three would there's clearly some space between my

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head and this

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line with my iron my head stays a little bit more centered and up against this

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line.

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As I come down with the iron like so you'll see that my shirt buttons roughly

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return to

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that position on top of the line.

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Now I still have a fair amount of access to which is part of the reason why I

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struggled

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a little bit with wedges but you can see that my shirt buttons are pretty much

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over the

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golf ball with this seven iron which part of the reason I was a pretty good mid

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and long

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iron player.

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Now here with the three would you'll see that while my upper body drifts a

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little bit forward

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during transition when I get to the point where I'm making contact with the

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golf ball

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my shirt buttons are still a couple inches or a few inches behind the golf ball

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That's one of the big differences in the ideal driver and the ideal iron swing

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but you can

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see that the pieces of creating lag the pieces of sequencing the big pieces of

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the stock

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full swing are roughly the same.

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If you looked at both of these positions with me at left arm parallel you can

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see a fair

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amount of similarities a fair amount of lag there's a lot of similar movements

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happening

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here in the golf swing and that's what we teach in the golf smart academy

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system as

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the movements of your stock full swing and then you learn how to make these

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minor adjustments

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in order to maximize either your iron game or your driver game and these are my

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examples

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that I'm demonstrating here in this swing analysis of myself if you have any

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questions

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I would love to hear from you and if you want to have a powerful and repeatable

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swing then

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